“Recently, the Utusan Malayu group has unceasingly published false news that have characterised Teresa Kok as a leader who is anti-Malay and anti-Islam,” said Penang PAS commissioner Mohd Salleh Man on behalf of the state coalition.

Pointing to a fictional story published in the daily which narrated an assassination plot on a character allegedly similar to Kok, Salleh called the work a piece of “ugly journalism”.

He asked for the group’s chief executive officer Datuk Chamil Wariya to be sacked from his post and investigated by the police for inciting the killing of a Member of Parliament.

Salleh said this at the state PKR’s Hari Raya open house in Sungai Dua Jubilee Hall here.